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4BR Spring Festival Quiz: Sponsored by Ev-entz

There's a great prize to be won with our Spring Festival quiz sponsored this week by Ev-entz.

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Once again there is a great prize package sponsored by our friends at Ev-entz — as long as you can guess the TWO qualifiers who will make it to the British Open from the Grand Shield.

CDs and DVD

We have the latest ‘Electra’ CD from Black Dyke and Mark Wilkinson’s wonderful new solo CD, ‘Milestone’ to win, as well as the remarkable ‘Masterclass’ DVD from David Childs.

Top two

All you have to do is pick the TWO bands you think will qualify from the Grand Shield this weekend in Blackpool.

If no one gets it right we will do a 4BR roll over to next week....

The competitors are:

1. Aldbourne
2. BTM
3. Co-operative Funeralcare North West
4. Flowers
5. Hammonds Saltaire
6. Jaguar Land Rover
7. Kirkintilloch
8. Marsden Silver
9. Milnrow
10. Mount Charles
11. Newstead Brass
12. Northorp Silver
13. Pemberton Old Wigan DW
14. Redbridge
15. Rothwell Temperance
16. Thoresby Colliery
17. Tongwynlais Temperance
18. Whitburn
19. Wingates
20. Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel

All you have to do is pick the TWO bands you think will qualify from the Grand Shield this weekend in Blackpool4BR

Clues:

Just take your pick of who you think may win!

Closing date:

All answers for this one must be received by 4BR before the announcement of the results on Saturday 11th May.

The European quiz winner was Callum Mallett of Ohope in New Zealand, who plays for Eastern Bay Brass. He will be receiving his prize package as soon as we can get it on a Quantas flight....

Answers
E-mail:
E-mail us the answer at: quiz@4barsrest.com

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